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Samantar Devanagari

by Indian Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $80.00 USD
Complete family of 5 fonts: $260.00 USD
Samantar Devanagari Font Family was designed by Dhwani Shah and published by Indian Type Foundry. Samantar Devanagari contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About Samantar Devanagari Font Family


Samantar Devanagari is a super-compact sans serif for the Devanagari and Latin scripts. It ships in two different formats: users can install Samantar Devanagari either as a single Variable Font or use its five static OpenType font files. The chief benefit of the Variable Font is its stretch axis. By using that, users can adjust the height of the letterforms in the fonts. Together, the static font files offer letterforms with a total of five different heights ranging from Samantar Devanagari Shortest to Samantar Devanagari Tallest. While those offer a fine amount of options, the Variable Font is simply more versatile. With it, users can select from almost 1,000 subtly differentiated font-height possibilities. In terms of its design, Samantar Devanagari features monolinear characters. The fonts’ lowercase Latin-script letters have tall x-heights; their ascenders only rise slightly above the height of the capitals. That is true regardless of how much you stretch the font out: the x-height will always increase along with the letters’ total measurements. The same is true for the Devanagari script’s glyphs. All Devanagari base characters take up most of the cartesian space available, and they are all paired with shorter vowel marks, too. Samantar Devanagari was designed in-house at ITF by Dhwani Shah. In Hindi, the word Samantar means ‘parallel’, which is quite an appropriate name for such a condensed typeface!

Designers: Dhwani Shah

Publisher: Indian Type Foundry

Foundry: Indian Type Foundry

Design Owner: Indian Type Foundry

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Samantar Devanagari

About Indian Type Foundry

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality, multilingual fonts for both the Indian and global market. ITF specialises in creating and developing both custom and retail fonts. ITF has designed and licensed fonts to some of the world’s most iconic brands including Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, Amazon and Hyundai to name just a few. Its retail library offers fonts for text and display use, in visual styles ranging from traditional to experimental. ITF currently offers over 200 retail font families across 20 writing systems. ITF’s Kohinoor font family is on permanent display at London’s Design Museum as part of the “Designer Maker User” exhibition, which recognises this work as a historic milestone in the field of graphic design.

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